Millstone85
2016-02-13, 07:21 PM
I have no experience with Planescape or anything before 4e. I tried to get the general feel of the Outer Planes as presented on the 5e version of the Great Wheel and here are my impressions so far:
NG Elysium and NE Hades
Those seem like places where nothing happens except for your eternal reward or punishment. You are either constantly happy in the Elysian Fields or you have turned into a slug that exists only to suffer and lament.
LN Mechanus and CN Limbo
The ultimate machinery lost in unknown schemes and a creative space where strong enough minds can call forth and maintain worlds of their own. Not much of an afterlife but interesting science-fantasy setting.
LG Mount Celestia, CG Arborea, LE Nine Hells and CE Abyss
Where the big concepts of justice, liberty, tyranny and pure undiluted cruelty are represented in biblical proportions. Celestial hosts march on fiendish legions, unless the latter are already keeping themselves busy.
Everything else
A plane of endless heroic challenges, a plane of neverending wars, a plane for druids, a plane of madness... I feel like each plane is its own concept and I shouldn't think too much about how it matches its intermediary alignment.
Is that the gist of it or are there some cool things I should know about?
NG Elysium and NE Hades
Those seem like places where nothing happens except for your eternal reward or punishment. You are either constantly happy in the Elysian Fields or you have turned into a slug that exists only to suffer and lament.
LN Mechanus and CN Limbo
The ultimate machinery lost in unknown schemes and a creative space where strong enough minds can call forth and maintain worlds of their own. Not much of an afterlife but interesting science-fantasy setting.
LG Mount Celestia, CG Arborea, LE Nine Hells and CE Abyss
Where the big concepts of justice, liberty, tyranny and pure undiluted cruelty are represented in biblical proportions. Celestial hosts march on fiendish legions, unless the latter are already keeping themselves busy.
Everything else
A plane of endless heroic challenges, a plane of neverending wars, a plane for druids, a plane of madness... I feel like each plane is its own concept and I shouldn't think too much about how it matches its intermediary alignment.
Is that the gist of it or are there some cool things I should know about?